The Billion-Dollar Solo Startup: How One Man Built Medvi — $401M in Year One, $1.8B Run Rate in Year Two — With Just AI and His Brother
In September 2024, Matthew Gallagher did something that most founders would call impossible.
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You’re Not Building AI Systems — You’re Discovering Them
Here’s a truth most people still refuse to accept when they try to “implement AI” in their business: You are not building a system. You are discovering one.
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Cyberpunk Is Already Here – People Are Building Their Own Cyberdecks
It’s 2026, and the future we were promised in the ’80s has quietly arrived — not in gleaming megacorps or neon megacities, but in thrift-store clutches and repurposed makeup cases.
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What Is a Startup? Cutting Through the Hype to Find the Real Meaning
A few years ago, we published an article titled “What is a Startup?” that quickly climbed to the top of our most-read and most-shared pieces.
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This AI Will Tell You Exactly How Attractive You Are — And It Only Takes 25 Seconds
There’s a new viral AI tool that does something most of us secretly want to know but are afraid to ask: it looks at your face and gives you a straight-up attractiveness score.
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Top 13 Reasons Why People Start Blogging
Blogs are becoming an essential component of now and are demanded for generations.
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Criminal Charges for AI-Generated Music? The First U.S. Case Sends a Clear Warning
If you've ever wondered whether you could quietly game streaming platforms with AI-generated tracks and bot farms, think again. In what appears to be the first criminal conviction of its kind in the United States, a North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to a multimillion-dollar streaming fraud scheme powered entirely by artificial intelligence.
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Finally, an IMDb for the Creator Economy: Mosaic and the CGA Rider Are Professionalizing Creator Work
For creators, Mosaic is more than a database. It’s a reputation layer that finally gives them leverage.When your name is verifiably attached to successful campaigns, you stop competing on price and start competing on track record. You can walk into negotiations and say, with evidence: “Here’s exactly what I delivered last time — and here’s the proof.” That single shift changes the power dynamic entirely.
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Lenny’s Product Pass: The $350/Year Subscription That Hands You $25,000+ in Premium AI Tools for Free (And Almost No One Uses It)
If you’re serious about AI and product building, you probably already subscribe to a dozen different tools. Cursor. Perplexity. Framer. Linear. ElevenLabs. The list gets expensive fast.
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Cowork’s "Turn Into Skill": The First Step Toward The Post-Work Era
The core function of the modern knowledge worker is undergoing a seismic, structural shift. We are moving from the "Manual Age" of writing emails and analyzing spreadsheets to the "Managerial Age" of processes and protocols.
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Teen-Built AI Calorie Counter Snapped Up by MyFitnessPal: A Game-Changer for Casual Fitness Tracking
In a move that highlights the transformative power of AI in the health and fitness sector, MyFitnessPal—one of the world's leading nutrition tracking apps—has acquired Cal AI, the viral calorie-counting app developed by two teenage founders.
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Time and Energy: Lessons from Nixon's Bold Experiment
In October 1973, the United States was thrust into an energy crisis that shattered its carefree postwar lifestyle. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an oil embargo on the U.S. and other nations supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War, halting supplies and triggering widespread fuel shortages.
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The Revival of Gourmet Magazine: A Trademark Twist and a New Digital Era
Gourmet magazine, once the pinnacle of American culinary journalism, has made an unexpected comeback—not through its original publisher, Condé Nast, but via a clever trademark maneuver by a group of independent journalists.
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Nothing Quick and Nothing Victorious. Rather, Total Failure.
In an era where geopolitical tensions simmer like a pot on the brink of boiling over, the world watches with bated breath as old alliances fracture and new conflicts ignite.
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Romantic Relationships = Relationships with a Project: Breaking the Cycle of Self-Sabotage
Have you ever heard those familiar tales of love gone wrong? One person meets another, sparks fly, and they envision a shared future filled with promise. But as time passes, cracks appear, and they realize they're not on the same path.
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